Steven Del Duca has done the comparatively easy part, he won the Liberal leadership on Saturday, now he has to convince voters across Ontario to let him and the Liberal Party back into power.
He didn’t get off to a great start.
I don’t want to take away from Del Duca’s accomplishment, he won the leadership on the first ballot and that took hard work.
Yet, asked several times about regrets from his time as a member of Kathleen Wynne’s cabinet or what he would do differently than the former Liberal premier, Del Duca refused to peel himself away from Wynne.
No one would expect a new leader to throw the old one under the bus, but there are ways to distance yourself from your predecessor without denouncing them.
Instead of putting distance between himself and Wynne, Del Duca embraced her and hugged the record that saw Wynne go from being the premier who went from trouncing the Tories with a solid majority in 2014 to being reduced to the minivan party in 2018.
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